Review: Moontide by Niall Campbell on The Literateur

It’s become a moment to savour when the debut collection of an Eric Gregory Award-winner hits the shelves. The Society of Authors have an uncanny habit of getting it right with young poets – Sam Riviere, Emily Berry, Ahren Warner and Helen Mort are just a few recent winners to be lavished with justifiable praise and attention – and 2011-recipient Niall Campbell seems next in line. After a widely admired debut pamphlet from HappenStance, After the Creel Fleet (2012) and winning the Poetry London Competition, Moontide is a collection punctuated by tides, ice and fading light, and presents us with poems of impressive confidence in their relative quiet....

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Two Poems on The Cadaverine

The Cadaverine have published two of my poems, 'In loving memory' and 'Tinnitus'.

You can read them here:

 

www.thecadaverine.com

Division Street by Helen Mort Review

My Review of Division Street on MouthLondon.com



Division Street must be one of the most anticipated debut collections in some years. Helen Mort won the Foyle Young Poets award five times, received an Eric Gregory Award in 2007 and the Manchester Young Writers Prize in 2008. In 2010, Mort became the youngest ever Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust, and her second pamphlet, a pint for the ghost (tall lighthouse), was a Poetry Book Society Choice. It is no surprise then, after such an early career in poetry, that Division Street is a mature debut rich... Read More

Red Doc> by Anne Carson Review

One of my favourite books this year. Read my review on MouthLondon.com Canadian writer Anne Carson has a back catalogue that marks her as one of the most distinctive voices working today. A prize-winning poet, essayist, translator and Professor of Classics, her 2010 collection Nox pushed the boundaries of poetry publication: an elegy and lamentation for her brother, Nox came encased in a box, printed on a single sheet folded like a concertina.

Carson operates in the realms of the fragment and, as Nox presented the story of... Read more

Frontierland

This video is massively inspiring a one-act play I'm writing. If you enjoy watching middle-aged Americans in fun-houses in British seaside towns in the mid-1990s, I recommend this as one of the best around.

Poems in Neon Magazine

I have a few poems in the latest issue of Neon Magazine, which you can by for a small fee or read online for free. Really cool little mag, giving three poems to each of the poets so you get a good feel for the poets.

Fourteen Magazine Issue 13

I have 2 poems from my sonnet series, 'Strategies', published in the new issue of Fourteen Magazine. It's the penultimate issue of a really cool magazine so you should buy it while you can. I went to the launch event at the Poetry Place in Covent Garden and there were some fantastic readings from other poems in the issue. Check it out.

Buy it here.